League of Revolutionary Black Workers study guide

This is a packet of readings put together by some IWW members in 2011.

This packet of materials can be used to put on discussion groups about the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. An informal group of IWW members put this together and encouraged members to see the film that the LRBW produced, "Finally Got The News."

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LRBW Study Guide.pdf (5.95 MB)

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Dying from the inside: The decline of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers

A key account of the organizational issues of the LRBW, by Ernie Allen. From the book, They Should…

Black cats, white cats, wildcats: Auto workers in Detroit, 1969

Introductory article and account of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers and its activity in…

The Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement - Martin Glaberman

Martin Glaberman's analysis on the formation of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement, a radical…

The carrot and the stick: December 11, 1968

DRUM's attack on the spectacle of the Chrysler Corporation's "milestone agreement" to "pour $1,000,000 into colored-owned banks in three US…

Transnational radicals: labour dissent and political activism in Detroit and Turin (1950–1970) - Nicola Pizzolato

Investigates the entangled histories of radical auto-workers in Detroit and Turin…

Basic Documents on the Black Struggle - CLR James

Rare collection of readings by C.L.R. James recommended to members of Revolutionary Black Workers in Detroit in the early 1970s.